Italian authorities are pondering how to provide warmer, less temporary housing for quake homeless living in ten.
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Police say officers riding motorcycles Monday to navigate rubble-strewn streets arrested a Romanian man and woman.
The suspects were driving a vehicle with German plates and were arrested for suspected looting in Preta.
Archibishop Tartaglia highlighted the close links between Scotland and Italy saying Scots were in tears over the tragic events in central Italy where at least 290 people were killed and hundreds more injured after a 6.2-magnitude quake struck in the early hours of Wednesday. Some people are sleeping in cars near their homes for fear of looting.
Italy held a day of national mourning for the quake victims Saturday.
Some 231 quake victims were found in Amatrice and 11 more in nearby Accumoli. The bodies of as many as 10 people, including Amatrice’s baker, are believed still buried in the rubble.
The devastating quake in Italy damaged or destroyed nearly 300 buildings of historic significance, Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism of Italy Dario Franceschini said.
“Amidst all the death and destruction, it was good to receive a message of hope from one of our own, also caught up in the horror of the natural disaster”, Archbishop Tartaglia said.
The quake that struck before dawn Wednesday also injured almost 400 people as it flattened three medieval towns near the rugged Apennines.
More funerals were due to be held in the devastated town of Amatrice on Tuesday evening.
Tuesday’s funeral is for some three dozen of the victims.
But an outcry forced the government to rethink and the service will now be staged in a large tent on the outskirts of the town’s destroyed medieval centre.
Amatrice Mayor Sergio Pirozzi told a crowd that Renzi had just spoken with him by phone.
The bodies had been stored in Rieti and officials said it would be easier to hold a mass funeral there rather than in the devastated Amatrice, but Prime Minister Matteo Renzi ordered a change of plan in the face of the local anger.
Last year, an estimated 1.3 million Romanians were living in Italy.
A statement said the bodies will arrive in Romania from Italy on Tuesday.
Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos also was to attend since 11 of the dead were Romanians. It says the seven are the first batch to be brought back, and others may also be as well, depending on their families’ wishes.
With thousands left homeless after Italy’s quake, authorities are debating how to provide warmer, sturdier housing for them besides the rows of emergency blue tents set up in the Apennine Mountains, where even summer nights can get chilly.
People rest in a playground next to the tent camp that was set in Pescara Del Tronto, central Italy, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016.
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Relatives and friends gathered around the caskets, including those of two small children, which were carried into the tent in pouring rain after a summer storm broke over Amatrice, the worst-hit town from the August 24 quake.
